Reuters today released its Thomson Reuters News Pro app for the iPhone, offering more multimedia features. Since Reuters has also launched the BlackBerry version, but this app has different characteristics for each of the two devices. continued »

If you are a media researcher or someone who really want to get in the loop with the latest news from all around the globe, The World Newspapers app is definitely for you. It offers almost 4000 newspapers with online editions from over 100 countries. continued »

If you'd like to know the latest news from Asia, this is one of free iPhone apps you can use. Singapore-based MediaCorp offers a free Channel NewsAsia app, allowing users to view videos on Asian news as well as worldwide news. continued »

Sometimes watching videos or movies on your iPhone or iPod Touch can be tedious, especially when you’re sitting at home, on a plane or riding the bus. Awkward neck positions and tiring hands tend to take away from the overall experience of watching a film. Now thanks to the iFlyz you can rest easy with your media player in a fixed ... continued »

dTunes offers an alternative method for playing media files on your iPhone. What dTunes offers that the iPod player does not, is direct access to music ad video download sites. You can download music, video or even torrents directly to your iPhone. Using dTunes is very simple, just search for the song or artist you wish to listen to and select ... continued »

AT&T are planning to integrate the iPhone with their U-verse distributed internet and video service, giving users the ability to remotely control the system from their cellphone screen as well as load digital content onto the Apple device.  U-verse combines IPTV with digital PVRs and internet access for distributed home media; AT&T recently announced rolling upgrades to the system which ... continued »

When NBC started making conciliatory gestures toward Apple back in January it looked as thought the network's TV shows might soon be back on iTunes.  Of course, that hasn't happened, and the two companies are still arguing over how media is priced and whether Apple is using, as many analysts suspect, iTunes as a loss-leader to pull in new iPod buyers.  ... continued »

Omitting video recording is just another of the bizarre decisions Apple made with their generation-one cellphone, but if the past year has taught us anything it's that whatever iPhone developers set their mind to, they usually achieve.  In this case, it's a video recording app for the handset.  Called uShow, it currently seems to be in closed beta. continued »

Developers NetBlender have just announced their BD Touch software for the iPhone and iPod Touch.  Using the official Apple SDK, they've come up with an app that links your handset, via WiFi, to your Blu-Ray player; not only can you control it remotely, you could use it to transfer content from the player to your iPhone, direct from the Blu-Ray ... continued »

After reading about the iPhone for a while, memorising facts from its spec-sheet is just an occupational hazard.  So, Apple's cellphone has a maximum screen resolution of 640 x 480 for compatible content... doesn't it?  Ars Technica say no, and they've been playing with video that encoded at 720 x 576, 25fps on both the iPhone and the iPod Touch, a figure ... continued »

Having yanked their content from iTunes after arguing with Apple over the prices charged for video - and accusing the company of slashing the cost of shows such as The Office and Scrubs so as to promote iPod sales - NBC are now apparently close to making up.  In a Financial Times report about network CEO Jeff Zucker, the NBC head-honcho suggests working relationships are beginning to be patched ... continued »

Orb on the iPhone isn't new, as such, but the media streaming company has a newly designed interface especially intended for the cellphone and its iPod Touch cousin.  That puts pay to our overriding criticism of the service from last time - that the desktop UI wasn't as compatible with the iPhone's mobile Safari browser as would be nice - and now ... continued »